In any conversation about ESPN’s NBA Countdown, someone invariably wonders why the show can’t be more like TNT’s Inside the NBA. While Inside the NBA is loose and fun and spontaneous, NBA Countdown can feel rigid and formulaic. But Jalen Rose, who is in his fourth season on Countdown, says the comparison isn’t quite fair. Asked by The Big Lead’s Ryan Glasspiegel about the success of […]

The Kansas City Chiefs picked up a huge AFC West win over the Oakland Raiders on Thursday Night Football this week. But there’s one play from the fourth quarter of the 21-13 victory that is drawing some extra scrutiny this morning in the aftermath of the game. Could the game have been changed because of a […]

Former NBA superstar Kevin Garnett is serving as a guest analyst for TNT in his first year of retirement, and offers some Inside the NBA commentary from a man cave/studio known as “Area 21″. Knowing that Garnett has a very, very difficult time saying many words without using profanity, TNT made sure to keep a bleep […]

Pro Football Focus is one of the smartest, most evidence-based sports web sites out there, but even they’re prone to some hot-takery once in a while. On Nov. 28, PFF published an article, by a writer named Sam Monson, headlined “The Chiefs can’t win a Super Bowl with the 2016 version of Alex Smith at QB.” […]

If you watched Hairspray Live on NBC this week, you may have noticed a number of live commercials sprinkled throughout the broadcast. As Fox is selling spots for Super Bowl LI in February, it’s looking at ways to bring advertisers into the fold. According to Variety, Fox is nearing 90% sold for the Big Game. And Fox […]

Troy Aikman famously played his entire career with the Dallas Cowboys, retiring after the 2000 season. But during a radio interview on Thursday, Aikman revealed that he almost came out of retirement in 2002, after a phone call from Andy Reid. The interview was with KTCK-AM in Dallas, and was detailed by the Dallas News: […]

The Michael Kay Show on ESPN Radio in New York is known as the other show hosted by a man named “Michael” in the Big Apple, the other being the Mike Francesa Show on WFAN. Kay’s show is normally behind Francesa in the ratings, but has the benefit of being simulcast on YES Network. The […]

The Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame has announced its 10th annual class of inductees and it’s a very distinguished group of honorees. Included in the group are familiar broadcastsers like Verne Lundquist, Tim McCarver and Robin Roberts, executives like CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus and former MSG Network president Joe Cohen, and famed baseball director Bill […]

Throughout the Chicago Cubs Postseason run this October, you probably heard all the stories about emotional Cubs fans and how the celebrated the team’s World Series run. But in reading many of these stories, there weren’t faces or voices to them – you’d just read about the Cubs fan who listened to Game 7 at […]

When conference expansion-palooza redrew the maps on college sports, the Pac-12 was considered one of the conferences in a better position than before. Much of that credit went to commissioner Larry Scott, who had big ideas for his West Coast collective on how they could stake their claim at the top of the P5 heap. […]

Before the week began, ESPN senior baseball writer Jayson Stark thought that the biggest thing that could happen at this week’s Winter Meetings in National Harbor, MD was a trade involving Chicago White Sox ace lefty Chris Sale. He had touched base with a number of teams before he got to the gigantic Gaylord hotel […]

We know the Dallas Mavericks are having a very rough season. The proud Mark Cuban-owned franchise have fallen all the way down to SixersLand, just a half game ahead of Philly for the worst record in the NBA at an abysmal 4-17 on the season. A team that was once known for its high octane offense is […]